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B. H. PEOK. CALL BELL.

No. 403,286. Patented May 14, 1889.

N. PETKRS. Phomumc n hnr, Washin ton, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

7 EUGENE H. PEOK, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT,ASSIGNOR TO THE I MERIDEN BRONZE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CALL-BELL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,286, dated May 14,, 1889.

Application filed April 16 1888. Serial No. 270,849. (No model.)

To all whom it 72mg concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE H. PECK, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Call-Bells; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a vertical central section showing the post in side view; Fig. 2, a vertical section through the bell and base, showing face view of the post; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the post detached; Fig. 4, a side View of part of the post, illustrating the method of securing the hammer in the cars.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of call-bells in which the bell is secured to the top of a post rising from the base and in which the hammer is hung to the post within the bell so as to swing in a plane diametrically across the bell, and the hammer operated by means of a spindle, which extends outward through the axis of the bell, and so that by pressing downward upon the spindle the hammer will be forced to strike the bell, and when. left free the hammer will return by its own gravity to its normal positiona class of bells well known. In the more general construction of these bells the hammer is hung between two cheeks on the post by drilling through the cheeks and through the hub of the hammer, and then introducing a wire pivot. This method of hanging the hammer of the bell is an expensive part of its manufacture. In some cases the hammer has been constructed with trunnions projecting from the respective sides of its head and the post formed with seats opening upward at the top of the post adapted to receive the trunnions, and so that the bell, placed upon the post, will cover the open seats and prevent the escape of the hammer. This answers a very good purpose in cases where the post is cast as a part of the base, but is not practical in bells in which the post is made separate from but secured to the base; hence in this latter construction of bells the pivot has been necessary.

' The object of my invention is to construct the detached post and the hammer so as to avoid the drilling operation and the introduction of the pivot.

A represents the base, which may be of any desired form of material, (here represented as made from sheet metal;) B, the post, which is constructed at its lower end to be secured firmly to the base, as here represented. The post is secured to the base by means of a screw through the base into the post. The post stands centrally in the base and rises vertically therefrom. At its upper end it is fitted to receive the bell O in the usual manner, and the bell is secured to the postby a tubular bindingscrew, D, which extends through the bell into the post, and so as to clamp the bell between the shoulder of the screw and the top of the post, as in the usual construction, and as shown.

The post is open vertically-that is, it

consists of two branches rising from its lower end and connected at the top, between which branches the hammer E is adapted to swing. To form bearings for the hammers, cheeks F F are formed on the post, one on each branch of the post and near the upper end, the usual position for the pivot-cheeks, but instead of drilling through these checks a notch or is formed in each cheek, opening laterally from the post, the depth of the notches being greater than the diameter of the trunnions Z) I) of the hammer.

The hammer is constructed with the trunnions as an integral part thereof, and is also constructed with the usual lateral projecting arm, d. The hammer is set in place in the post with the trunnions in the notches in the respective cheeks, as seen in Fig. 4:, and then the cheeks outside the trunnions are closed over the trunnions, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 4, and as also seen in Fig. 1. This is readily done by a simple blow upon the cheeks-an inexpensive operation.

The notches or trunnion-seats in the checks on the post are formed in the process of casting. When the hammer is in place, as I'have described, it is supported independentof the the drilling operation andthe insertion of i bell, and as if the cheeks and hub of the hammer were drilled, and the Wire rivet introduced.

The usual spindle extends through the screw D and rests upon the hammer-arms, so that as the spindle is pressed thehammer is forced to strike the bell in the usual manner.

I am aware that the posts of call-bells have been constructed with recesses to form seats for the trunnions of the hammer, but in such case the recesses have been upon the upper end of the post, opened upward, of a depth no greater than the diameter of the trunnions, and the hammer is held in its seat solely by the presence of the bell, which, resting on the top of the post, closes the opening of the said recesses; hence when the bell is loosened or removed the hammer is correspondingly free to jump or be thrown from its seats. I therefore do not claim, broadly, constructing the post of call-bells with recesses to receive the trunnions of the hammer.

I claim In a call-bell substantially such as described, the post B constructed with a hammer opening through it and withlaterally-proj ecting cheeks each side said opening, and the cheeks constructed with notches a at, opening laterally from the post and of a depth greater than the diameter of the trunnions on the hammer, the hammer constructed with a trunnion projecting each side its head and set into said notches, and the cheeks closed upon the trunnions, substantially as de scribed.

EUGENE ll. PECK.

Witnesses:

E. A. MERRIMAN, JAMEs W. HOUGH, 

